Boy Scouts | buffalotrailbsa.org Intro to Backpacking | Jamboree | JOTA | Fishathon Boy Scouting means outdoor adventure! The Scouting program packs character development, citizenship, and all levels of fitness into a fun and exciting experience. With the Scout Oath and Law as a guide, Scouting helps a boy develop into a well-rounded young man. Through the advancement program, a Scout can progress in rank through achievements, gaining additional knowledge and responsibilities. Earning merit badges provides opportunities for Scouts to be introduced to a lifelong hobby or a rewarding career. In Boy Scouting, youth take responsibility for the activities of the troops. By planning and organizing activities, they develop teamwork and learn to lead as well as follow. Through the support of parents and religious and neighborhood organizations, Scouts develop an awareness and appreciation of their role in their community. Scouts from Troop 175 pose with Governor Rick Perry following a flag raising ceremony. HOW TO JOIN Your son can join Boy Scouts by attending a rally being held at his school or a school of your choice! If you don’t want to wait or cannot make it to the school rally, boys still have the opportunity to join. In fact, boys can join anytime throughout the year!

Call the Buffalo Trail Council at 432-570-7601 OR download an application form by clicking HERE and email it to info@buffalotrailbsa.org . Click here for application IMPORTANT: Be sure to save the file first, then read the instructions, scroll to PAGE 5 and fill out the form completely before re-saving it. Then simply attach it to your email. You will be put in touch with a leader that will help you get signed up quickly! All personal information received is treated as completely and strictly confidential and will not be used or shared for anything other than the specified purpose. For more information, view our privacy policy here: Website Privacy Policy 100 Things You Didn't Know About Scouting Jamboree Reporter's Notebook > 100 Things About Scouting 100 Things You Didn't Know About Scouting Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, is an Eagle Scout. When he said, “The Eagle has landed,” he wasn’t kidding. In 1969, Armstrong became the first Eagle Scout to be portrayed on a U.S.

postage stamp— called “The Man on the Moon.” The Invention merit badge (1911–1918) required the candidate to obtain a patent. Boys’ Life magazine, which goes to 1.1 million Scouts each month, was started by an 18-year-old Scout, George S. Barton, in 1911. A year later, the Boy Scouts of America bought the magazine for $6,100—about $1 per subscriber. James E. West was the BSA’s first Chief Scout Executive. When he took the position in 1911, he agreed to serve six months. At his retirement in 1943, he was given the title of Chief Scout. The BSA is the second-largest Scouting organization in the world. The largest is in Indonesia. One of Scouting’s most popular traditions, patch trading, has bloomed into a full-fledged hobby. Some rare patches are worth thousands of dollars. For all but two years from 1925 to 1976, illustrator Norman Rockwell illustrated the annual Brown & Bigelow Boy Scout calendar—for free.

Former Congressmen Alan Simpson and Norman Mineta served together from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s. They met as Boy Scouts during World War II, when Simpson’s troop from Cody, Wyoming, visited the internment camp where Mineta and his Japanese immigrant parents were being held. The two became—and have remained—close friends and political allies. The first Eagle Scout to earn all available merit badges was Leon Wallace in 1922. In May 1964, 29 of American’s 30 astronauts visited Philmont for a two-week training trip to learn geological mapping and seismographic studies in preparation for the Apollo programs. Three important Eagle Scouts all have names beginning with “A.” The first Eagle Scout is Arthur Eldred (1912) of Long Island, New York; the 1 millionth Eagle (1982) is Alexander Holsinger of Normal, Illinois; and the 2 millionth Eagle (2009) is Anthony Thomas of Lakeville, Minnesota. Scouts collected more than 65 million containers of food during the first Scouting for Food drive in 1988.

The Cub Scout sign (the index and middle fingers extended in a V shape) symbolizes the ears of an alert wolf. It replaced the Indian “how” sign, which looked too much like the Nazi salute. The BSA sells 2.3 million merit badges—one for each person in the state of Utah—every year. After eating candy when he had promised not to, a repentant Howard Hughes returned his Buckskin Badge to Daniel Carter Beard with a note that read, “With love, from Howard.” By the BSA’s centennial in February 2010, more than 1.2 billion Boys’ Life magazines were printed. At age 12, Seattle Mariners chairman and CEO Howard Lincoln posed for Norman Rockwell’s painting The Scoutmaster. On February 8, 1910, William D. Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America. He personally donated $1,000 per month to keep the organization afloat—on the condition that boys of all races and creeds be admitted. In 1920, the BSA sent 301 Scouts to the inaugural world Scout jamboree in England, where they joined Scouts from 33 other countries.

The American Scouts represented all 48 states plus the territory of Hawaii. In 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt requested the Boy Scouts’ service in collecting 1.8 million items of clothing, household furnishings, foodstuffs, and supplies for victims of the Great Depression. After the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaiian Scouts set up first-aid stations and emergency kitchens, helped evacuate civilians, served as messengers, and manned 58 air-raid sirens around Honolulu. During a three-month drive in the spring of 1942, Scouts collected 318,000 tons of paper for the war effort. In a nationwide nonpartisan get-out-the-vote campaign in 1956, Scouts distributed more than a million posters and 36 million Liberty Bell doorknob hangers. In 1954, the BSA conducted a National Conservation Good Turn, distributing 3.6 million conservation posters. In parks, rural areas, and wilderness areas, Scouts planted 6.2 million trees, and built and placed 55,000 bird-nesting boxes.

Scouts collected more than 1 million tons of litter on Scouting Keep America Beautiful Day in 1971. The Soviet Union turned to the BSA in 1993 for help in producing the first Russian Scout handbook; 20,000 copies were distributed. The 20 millionth Scout was registered with the BSA in 1952; by 2000, that number reached 100 million. The gravestone of worldwide Scouting founder Robert Baden-Powell is marked with a trail symbol of a circle with a dot in the center, which means “I have gone home.” While Robert Baden-Powell’s English Scouts had nine points in their Scout Law, the Boy Scouts of America added three more: A Scout is brave, clean, and reverent. In 1929, an African American Boy Scout from Fort Worth, Texas, found and returned a woman’s pocketbook that contained more than $300 in cash. The boy declined her liberal reward, saying, “No, madam. I am a Boy Scout and cannot take a tip for doing my duty.” Scouts have served at every presidential inauguration since Woodrow Wilson’s in 1913.

Boy Scouts who helped out at the Wilson inauguration were Honor Medal recipients. Portions of the 1963 movie PT 109, the story of the sinking of John F. Kennedy’s PT boat during World War II, were filmed on Big Munson Island at the Florida National High Adventure Sea Base. When America entered World War I in 1917, membership in the BSA outnumbered the 200,000-man U.S. Army by more than 68,000 members. American passenger railroads helped boost the population at the first national Scout jamboree in 1937—they offered fares at a special price of 1 cent per mile. Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton became an Eagle Scout at age 13, businessman and philanthropist H. Ross Perot at 13, and President Gerald R. Ford at 14. The first Scouts to live in the White House were the sons of 30th U.S. President Calvin Coolidge: John and Calvin Jr.

In the aftermath of the attacks of September 11, 2001, Scouts from New York and New Jersey helped reignite the American spirit, collecting more than 153,000 bottles of water for Ground Zero rescue workers—and placing handwritten messages of appreciation and encouragement in their hard hats. The Boy Scout Memorial in Washington, D.C., marks the site of the 1937 National Scout Jamboree. One of the few D.C. memorials to commemorate a living cause, it was accepted in 1964 by Associate Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark on his 50th anniversary as an Eagle Scout. More than 8 million people read Boys’ Life each month. In Scouting’s first decade, dozens of composers turned out Boy Scout sheet music, including John Phillip Sousa, who wrote the “Boy Scouts of America March” in 1916. More than 1.5 million pinewood derby cars are sold each year. If the cars were lined up end to end, they would stretch 166 miles. At the outbreak of World War I, the Boy Scouts of America was the largest uniformed body in the United States—twice as large as the U.S.

Army, nearly twice as large as the National Guard, four times larger than the U.S. Navy, and 11 times larger than the U.S. Marine Corps. Each year, the BSA awards 6 million pocket certificates. If stacked on top of one another like a deck of cards, they would be as tall as the Empire State Building, the Washington Monument, both Sears Towers (now Willis Tower), and the John Hancock Conservatory combined. The first African American Boy Scout troop was organized in 1911 in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The Florida National High Adventure Sea Base is one of the largest scuba-diving operations in the United States, conducting more than 25,000 individual dives annually. These days, boys may earn the rank of Eagle Scout only until age 18, but until 1965, both boys and men could achieve Scouting’s highest rank. Of the 12 men who would eventually walk on the moon, 11 were former Scouts. Rafael Petit and Juan Carmona of Caracas, Venezuela, hiked to the 1935 National Scout Jamboree, only to find that it was canceled due to a polio outbreak.

They returned for the rescheduled 1937 Jamboree—a total of 8,000 miles. The only recorded Tyrannosaurus Rex footprint cast was discovered at Philmont Scout Ranch. Norman Rockwell designed the first 12 Scout medals for the BSA. Robert E. Peary discovered the North Pole in 1908. When his article on the adventure appeared in print in June 1914, it was not in Harper’s or Collier’s. Only Boys’ Life had it. In April 1937, Cubmobiles, patterned after soapbox derby racers and described as any contrivance on wheels (one, two, three, four, or more wheels) became an annual feature of Cub Scouting. At his family’s request, two separate honor guards of Eagle Scouts played a major role in the 2006 memorial services for President Gerald R. Ford, the first U.S. president to achieve the Eagle Scout rank as a boy. A young George Herman “Babe” Ruth was a Tenderfoot Scout in Troop 23, promising to do a Good Turn daily.

The BSA sells almost 1 million neckerchiefs each year. If laid out flat, they would cover 120 football fields, or 124 acres. In 1927, the BSA created Honorary Scouts to distinguish “American citizens whose achievements in outdoor activity, exploration, and worthwhile adventure are of such an exceptional character as to capture the imagination of boys.” Among the Honorary Scouts were Orville Wright and Charles Lindbergh. In 1981, real Life Scout Harrison Ford made film history, playing fictional Life Scout Indiana Jones in the first of four adventure films. Of 122 merit badges, the one earned most by Scouts across the country is First Aid; more than 84,419 Scouts earned the badge in 2008. The BSA is eco-friendly! In addition to publishing the first “green” Boy Scout Handbook in 2009, BSA magazines Boys’ Life and Scouting have been certified by the Sustainable Forestry Initiative.

A Boy Scout was selected to read Abraham Lincoln’s address at the 50th anniversary commemoration of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1913, one of among several national notices the BSA received that year. Home to the world’s largest collection of Norman Rockwell paintings, the National Scouting Museum in Irving, Texas, is 53,000 square feet—it would take some 3.2 million merit badges to fully cover the museum’s floor. When Orville Wright wrote how he and his brother Wilbur got to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, for the first engine-powered airplane flight, only Boys’ Life printed “How I Learned to Fly.” Nearly 1.2 million volunteers donate an average of 20 hours per month to the BSA, which totals 288 million hours of time during one year. Independent Sector projects the average value of volunteer time to be $20.25 an hour. Given this hourly rate, the approximate value of the time given by Boy Scout volunteers is more than $5.8 billion annually.

A project for Cub Scouts and their parents, pinewood derby cars made since 1954 could form a line stretching from Los Angeles to the island of Tahiti in the Polynesian Islands—a total of more than 5,500 miles. If a Boy Scout attends his weekly patrol and troop meetings, participates in a monthly weekend troop outing, and attends long-term summer camp with his troop, he will have spent as much time with Scouting in a year as he spends in the classroom. The Boy Scout Handbook has had Braille editions for many years; merit badge pamphlets have been recorded on cassette tapes for the blind; and closed-caption training videos have been produced for those who are deaf. Former Sea Scout Paul Siple coined the term wind chill. He experienced the phenomenon firsthand when he accompanied Commander Richard E. Byrd on an 18-month voyage to Antarctica. Inspired by an article he read in Boys’ Life about the adventures of reporters working around the world, Boy Scout Walter Cronkite went on to become the face of television news in the United States. During the 1970s, Kenner Products developed a line of Scout action figures whose right arms, when raised, made the Scout salute.

The “turn” in Philmont’s first Scout name, “Philturn,” came from the Scout slogan “Do a Good Turn Daily.” In Scouting’s early years, institutions such as Cornell University, Columbia University, and the universities of Virginia, Wisconsin, Texas, and California offered training courses for Scout leaders. More than 400 colleges and 34 seminaries offered such courses by the mid-1930s—half for college credit. As part of the two-year “Strengthen the Arm of Liberty” campaign in 1949–50, Scouts erected more than 200 81⁄2-foot-tall replicas of the Statue of Liberty across the country. Following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the statue on Seattle’s Aiki Beach became an impromptu memorial and gathering place for stunned Seattle residents. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has dived from the Florida National High Adventure Sea Base. The total number of merit badges earned in 1911 was 85; the number earned in 2008 was 1,913,676.

Virtually unchanged since 1911, the design of the Plumbing merit badge is a water faucet. Dr. E. Urner Goodman, the founder of the BSA’s national honor society, the Order of the Arrow, was once a volunteer Scoutmaster of Troop 1 in Philadelphia. Early Scouting leaders James E. West, Daniel Carter Beard, and Ernest Thompson Seton sat on first Eagle Scout Arthur Eldred’s Eagle board of review. The Kansas City Area Council has had an exceptionally productive advancement program and won the distinction of “Most Eagle Scouts” from 1912 to 1969, totaling 13,943. The council still ranks in the top 10 today. Edward VIII, former Prince of Wales, is the only person who received the BSA Silver Buffalo Award (1929) and later became a king. The Silver Buffalo Award is awarded for distinguished service to youth. On September 10, 1910, S. F. Lester of Troy, New York, became the first person to hold the Scouting leadership position of Scoutmaster (commissioned by the BSA).

Today, approximately 100,000 Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Venturers with disabilities are registered with the Boy Scouts of America in more than 4,000 units chartered to community organizations. In 1912, five of the 23 Eagle Scouts came from West Shokan, New York. Chess legend Bobby Fischer was the author of a chess column called “Checkmate” in Boys’ Life from 1966 until 1969. Eagle Scouts who served as Chief Scout Executive include Joseph Brunton Jr. (1960–1966), Alden Barber (1967–1976), Harvey Price (1976-1979), James Tarr (1979–1984), Jere Ratcliffe (1993–2000), and current Chief Scout Executive Robert Mazzuca. Charles Scruggs of Cuero, Texas, was reportedly the first recipient of the Honor Medal for lifesaving in 1911. Ernest Lawrence was the first Boy Scout to have a chemical element named in his honor: lawrencium.

He was also the first former Scout to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, in 1939. In June 1942, Time magazine dubbed the BSA “Public Scavenger Service #1” for its outstanding wartime collection drives. It is believed that Robert Baden-Powell and W. D. Boyce never met. Raymond Cobb was 25 when he reportedly became the first “Complete Scout,” completing all merit badges and earning Eagle, Ace, Ranger, Silver, and Quartermaster Awards. The seven Mercury Project astronauts designed the original requirements for the Space Exploration merit badge. Mickey Mouse, who was created in 1928, was the authorized name of a patrol in the 1930 Bronx Council Troop 246. “Uncle Dan” Beard wrote that his greatest honor was having a mountain named after him—Mount Beard, which adjoins Mount McKinley. During the Depression, the BSA employed special railroad executives who started and supported Scout troops in some 300 rural communities along railroad lines. Ralph Bunche was the first Boy Scout to earn the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1950.

(Robert Baden-Powell was nominated in 1939 but did not win.) In 1952, the World Book children’s encyclopedia published a special book on each of the merit badge subjects. The BSA was the first youth-serving organization to have a U.S. combat vessel, the USS Esteem, dedicated in its honor. It launched in December 1952. During World War II, Scouts collected 7,000 tons of clothes for people in Europe and Asia. In 1964, 41 Scouts were the first to earn merit badges for Oceanography, presented to them by Rear Adm. Denys W. Knoll. The pages of Boys’ Life have been home to noteworthy writers such as Alex Haley, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Van Wyck Brooks, Ernest Thompson Seton, Bobby Fischer, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Arthur B. Reeve, and John Knowles. Presidents John F. Kennedy, Gerald R. Ford, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama were Scouts as youth, and Jimmy Carter was a Scoutmaster.

President Kennedy was the first Scout to become president; Gerald Ford was the first (and to date, only) Eagle Scout president. Boy Scout Bands Boy Scout Bands Boy Scout bands were very popular in the first thirty years of Scouting. Scouts in full uniform, marching and playing their instruments, were a stirring sight to see and hear, even if they were not always in tune! A Band in San Angelo The San Angelo Kiwanis Club on May 30, 1922, suggested to a newly appointed Scout committee that a Boy Scout Band be organized. The committee met that evening and appointed R. H. Compton and F. L. Traenkle to further investigate the matter. They noted that a director would be needed who would have to be paid and someone would have to provide the money because the Council had no money at all. The Kiwanis Club agreed to sponsor the band and provide the money. During summer camp at Camp Vista Concho in late August, the proposition of having a band was submitted to the boys in camp and a large number of boys signified their desire to enlist as musicians. Mr. G. A.

Hartman, who was director of the San Angelo Concert Band at the time, was hired to direct the band and the first meeting of the Scouts was held at the American Legion Opera House in San Angelo on Tuesday Evening, September 5, 1922, to organize the group. At that meeting, twenty-two youths signified interest in joining the band. Only about four of the Scouts had any musical training. Mr. Hartman had previous experience in directing the Bronte Band and within seven months he had that group playing overtures and other "heavy" numbers, so he thought this group could make its first appearance after several months of instruction. By October 24, 1922, twenty-five boys were practicing regularly, fifteen of whom were classed as good musicians.

The band then consisted of the following: Clarinets - Forster Rust, Ralph Hickman Saxophones - Celley Birt, Joel Brown Cornets - Army Rust, Wilbur Yancy, Arthur Belling, Vaughn Wood, Cecil Elliot, Wyley Shrum Altos - Raymond Harris, Jack Jones, Clarence Alberts Trombones - Erwin Lyon, Earl Stovall, Lee Jones, Harold Cornelison, Lyn Bennett, Berton Houston Baritone - Albert Hartman Basses - Herbert Hartman, J. P. Jett, Reece Albert Base Drum - James Freeman Snare Drums - B. Abernathy, Bert Week The first public appearance of the band was made during the Kiwanis Club's Ladies' night on November 17, 1922. The thirty boys, now in the band, played several pieces in the lobby of the St. Angelus hotel prior to dinner and one piece following dinner. Thirty-six boys were active in the band by December 1, 1922, when they made their first public appearance on the streets of San Angelo. They marched up Concho Ave.

to the Landon, thence north on Chadbourne to Beauregard and west to the St. Angelus Hotel and returned by the same route. They stopped at four of the principal corners of the business district and played "Our Beginners March," a waltz "Soft Music is Stealing," and overtures "Nicturo", "Our Leader," and "America." The Boy Scout Band provided the music at a Scout Week program held at the First Baptist Church in 1923. There were 130 boys in Scouting in San Angelo at the time with many of them in the band. By March 14, 1923, the band was at full strength with fifty members. By now the draggy playing, jerky time and weakness in solo and section parts were disappearing from the band. They could play about fifteen selections including such marches as "Under Arms", "National Guard" and "Our Leader" as well as a serenade "Stilly Night." During the summer of 1923, starting on Thursday evening, June 21, 1923, 8 o'clock, the band played concerts on the Court House lawn.

The band spent two days in Sonora the first part of July furnishing music for Sonora's four-day Fourth of July celebration. Forty-two youth made the trip with Hartman. Mayor W. E. Caldwell of Sonora said "Especially did we appreciate the San Angelo Boy Scout Band. It rendered excellent music which was enjoyed by everyone and contributed largely towards creating a spirit in keeping with the event." This was the last time we found a story about the band in THE SAN ANGELO DAILY STANDARD. We do know, from talking with former band members, that most of the boys later helped organize the DeMolay Band and played for may Scout activities in the late '20s and early '30s. Boy Scout Band at Ozona Several publications published over the years on the history of Ozona made mention of a Boy Scout Band in Ozona in 1926 and 1927. A story in the Crockett County Golden Anniversary Historical Edition of 1941 stated "The first band in Ozona was organized by Mrs. "Red" Smith in November 1926.

It was organized as a Boy Scout Band comprising school students and made it first public appearance in the town park on July 4, 1927, during the rodeo. The band was sponsored by the P.T.A. as a school band in 1927-1928. "Members were Eugene Montgomery, P. C. Coats, Peas Childress, Tot Grimer, Clifton Monteith, Bill Friend, Slick Miller, Bert Kincaid, Jr., Batts Friend, John Kirkpatrick, Billy Baggett, James Baggett, Cam Longley, Billy Childress, Marvin Graves, B. B. Ingham, Bud Coates, Woodrow Wilson, Massie Ray Smith, Joe Billy Keaton, Miller Robinson, Lee Dudley and Roger Dudley." We do not know how many of these band members were Scouts but we suspect most of them were being as it was a Boy Scout Band. Apparently the band only lasted a year as a Boy Scout Band. The famous Iraan Cowboy Band A Boy Scout band was organized in Iraan, Texas in the May of 1934, under the leadership of E. O.

Moore, who served as Scoutmaster of Troop 49. Charles Baldwin, who played trumpet, directed the band and Mack Greenhow, saxophonist, was the announcer. Vern Brownlee served as second Scoutmaster The band came to Camp Louis Farr on June 10, 1934, as a Troop. While they were at camp they made appearances before the Lions Club in Mertzon, over radio station KGLL, and marched on the streets of Mertzon. First members of this band were: Trumpets -- Wilson Lauderdale, Lewis Blackburn, Orville Fraker, Arthur Barasso, David Morrison, R. C.

Calk Clarinets -- Udel Copeland, Layton Johnson, Ed Earl Heberson, and Jack Baker Saxophone -- Mack Greenhow, Atlas Charles Bass Drum -- Robert Ivy Trap Drums -- Harry Glendenning, Norman Montgomery Bass Horns -- Robert Patterson, Charles Halcomb French Horns -- Jimmie Rigsbee, Ted Simon Altos -- Raymond Warner, James Cooney, Billy Joe Greenhow Trombones -- Claude Webb, Pat Moore The band was selected as the official band for the 16th district of the American Legion, and made a trip to Marfa to participate in their convention from November 16-18, 1934. Jacques Nonce, high school band instructor, was in charge of the band during this trip. The citizens of Marfa made arrangements to entertain the members of the band, and their trip was paid for by the American Legion. On January 26, 1935, the band played for the Council's Annual meeting held in San Angelo. A photo of the band in their Boy Scout uniforms appeared in the January 26, 1935, issue of the SAN ANGELO MORNING TIMES.

The band was suppose to have gone to the National Boy Scout Jamboree in August of 1935, but because of a polio epidemic, the trip was canceled and they went to California to the San Diego Exposition instead. The band was present at Camp Louis Farr on June 16, 1937, for the dedication of Carr Village. They played the Star Spangled Banner, following the invocation, while the flag was raised in the center of the Village. They also provided music to the group. Band a hit at 1937 National Boy Scout Jamboree (Taken from the West Texas Scout News, Tuesday, August 3, 1937, written by Bryan Cooney) "There were twenty-four Scours from Troop 49, Iraan, who attended the Jamboree. The rest of the band of thirty pieces was compost of Scouts from other troops. Under the capable leadership of Mr. Jacques Nonce, this band put Iraan on the map. It also gave the Easterners a good idea what Texas is like, with members wearing cowboy boots, chaps, spurs, gay colored shirts and ten gallon hats.

Others who were with the band were Acting Scoutmaster H. B. Blackburn, Assistant Scoutmaster James K. Biggs and Assistant Scoutmaster J. B. Morris. "This was the official band for Regions eight and nine, and they had the privilege of greeting Dan Beard as he arrived at the Jamboree. They serenaded James E. West, Chief Scout Executive, and broadcast from a National hookup on the Jamboree grounds. "Their toughest job at the Jamboree was playing for the Circus program of region eight and nine. They had to play fast circus marches for over two hours and then walk three miles back to camp. "The boys had a great time. They visited the Washing Monument, The Capitol, White House, Supreme Court, Mt. Vernon, Smithsonian Institute, Library of Congress, Arlington Cemetery, Lincoln Memorial and all the Government Department Buildings. "The band members were: Luther B. Stover, Eudell Copeland, Ed Earl Hebisen, Winston Holcomb, Oliver Barnes, J. B. Copeland, Lewis Blackburn, Keith Anderson, David Morrison, Jolly Johnson, Montgomery, Zack McFarland, J. D.

Carr, Jimmis Rigbee, Elmer Sutton, Raymond Warner, Bryan Cooney, Leon Harris of McCamey, Tom Hogan from Crane, Clarence Holcombe, Robert Patterson, Robert Ivy, Norman Montgomery and Edwin Shadle. Four Scouts from San Angelo also played with the band. R. C. Calk and Jack Baggett of Ozona were the drum majors." Make Trip to Eagle Pass The band played for the first Winter Garden Boy Scout Circus in Eagle Pass on November 13, 1937. They played during the parade of all Scouts present and also several numbers during the Circus. The band played at the dedication ceremony held on the Town Square in Iraan on August 23, 1940, for the Sea Scout Patrol's cruiser, the S.S.S. Yates, prior to the boat being taken to Lake Nasworthy near San Angelo. Troop 9's Band Troop 9, San Angelo, was organized in January 1935, as a nucleus of a Boy Scout Band for the community. The band made its first public appearance on Sunday, February 10, 1935, at the Business Men's Bible Class.

At that time the band had eighteen members. The Scoutmaster of the Troop was Ira Johnson, with Chief N. N. Bourland as director of the band. The troop was sponsored by the Community Concert Association. A year later, the troop gathered together some forty Scouts, parents, and leaders in the studio of Chief N. N. Bourland for the first birthday party of the troop. Scouts Jones Webb, Perry Elliott, Horace Arnold and George and C. J. Poulter gave musical numbers. We believe the band lasted only a couple of years because the Boy Scout Band was reorganized in San Angelo in mid October, 1938. This band made its first public appearance at the Council's Annual meeting held January 20, 1939, on the roof of the St. Angelus Hotel. The director of the new band, Homer A. Anderson, was band instructor in the Junior and Senior High schools. Frank Herrington, a junior in Senior High school, served as assistant band director. The band did not rehearse regularly as a Scout unit but was made available for all Scout events at which music was desired.

Scouts in the band were from Troop 2, 4, 6, 7, 11, 12, and 32. Lone Scout Band - Rising Star The following story appeared in the local newspaper, name unknown, concerning the Lone Scout Band, around 1927. "Local radio fans and friends of the boys will no doubt be interested in learning that the "Tejas Ticklers" string orchestra of the local Lone Scouts , will broadcast a program beginning at 10:30 next Tuesday night over Station K.F.Q. R., the occasion being the opening of he new Wesrook Hotel. "The engagement was secured by Melvin Boatman, member of the orchestra who was in Fort Worth the past week. "The boys have only been organized some six months but by constant practice have developed to the point where they render some very splendid music, having played at several school entertainments the past fall and at social gatherings in the city.

"The boys would be glad for their friends to tune in on the program and no doubt would appreciate congratulatory messages which would be good publicity for Rising Star." A follow-up story then appeared in the paper: "Rising Star received quite a bit of publicity Tuesday night when the "Tejas Tickler" local Lone Scout Orchestra, gave a program over Station KFQB at Fort Worth, the boys receiving congratulatory messages from all over the state and adjoining states. A number of their friends from Rising Star wired and phone in to express their appreciation of the program, including the Rising Star Chamber of Commerce. "The boys were given a faltering introduction by the announcer, calling each boy by name and saying some nice things about Rising Star. The boys got their program over in great shape, the numbers being of the popular type and also including a number of old time pieces. "Following is the personnel of the orchestra: Claude Foster, director; guitar.

Walter Tomlinson, banjo-uke." Another story also appeared about the band in the newspaper in the summer of 1927: "A concert by the Tejas Ticklers, Lone Scout string band of this city, will be one of the principal features at the First Annual Nine Rally and Conference of the organization to be held at Dallas, August 27-28 (1927). The young musicians have attracted much attention in scouting circles recently because of their ability. "Roy W. McDonald, National Chief of the Lone Scouts, will deliver the principal address at the gathering. Mr. McDonald s an expert on all phases of boys' work and addressed a National gathering of officials of the Boy Scouts of America, of which the Lone Scouts is a division, at Hot Springs, Ark., last summer on Lone Scout procedure. Karl M. Read, Regional Chief, will speak on the present status of Lone Scout work in the three states of his jurisdiction: Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico.

Other addresses by prominent scouts will be made also and plenty of athletic and scouting contests." Scout Orchestra of Breckenridge According to the Brownwood Bulletin, January 25, 1936, the music for their Annual Council Banquet was furnished by the Scout Orchestra of Breckenridge, of wich J. C. Burkett was director. Band at Camp Martin A. J. Campbell, band director at Eastland, led the first band at Camp Martin. It was composed of Scouts from Cisco, Eastland, Olden, Ranger and Gorman who came to camp from Eastland County Council. It was active at camp in July 1928. Eighteen Scouts were members of the band. The band was a regular feature of the camp again in 1929. Other Bands at Camps Troops 17 and 18 of Breckenridge arrived at Camp Billy Gibbons in 1932 with a ï¿½well organized bandï¿½ according to a story in The Bugle Call, the camp newspaper.

The band played ï¿½Onward Christian Soldierï¿½ while three Eagle Scouts carried a floral wreath and placed it on rocks gathered by Scout Troops to use in building a memorial to Billy Gibbons on Sunday, July 24, 1932. A Scout orchestra was organized in Rising Star Troop 15 in January of 1933 under the leadership of the Assistant Scoutmaster Benny Busbee. Eleven members of the Troop were part of the orchestra and they were all accomplished musicians. They were all older Scouts in the Troop, probably high school age who were members of the high school band. Their first appearance was to be at the Annual Father and Son Banquet in February. During the Council Annual Meetings in January of 1935, 1937, and 1939, music was furnished by the Breckenridge Scout orchestra that was directed by J. C. Burkett. The evening program was opened in 1939 with music by the band of Sea Scout Ship Texan.

Cookieï¿½s Cookies Troop 2 organized a Boy Scout band in early 1939 and named it ï¿½Cookieï¿½s Cookies.ï¿½ They were practicing ï¿½diligentlyï¿½ according to a report in the Brownwood Bulletin on January 17th, but we don't know if they ever performed in public. Dublinï¿½s Drum and Bugle Corp Dublin had an active Drum and Bugle Corp in 1938. Led by W. E. Sparks, they put on a demonstration at the Annual Boy Scout meeting held in Brownwood on January 21, 1938, and again on January 27, 1939. In April, they led a Scout parade and gave demonstrations of their skills in that community. On June 15, they went to Fort Worth and participated in a parade in connection with the State Safety Meet. The corp was made up of Scouts from Troop 22 and Troop 24.

The Drum and Bugle Corp performed at the Council Rally held on September 2, 1938, at Lake Eanes, Comanche, with some one hundred and fifty Scouts present. Scouts attended the Rally from Dublin, Comanche, Gorman, Rising Star, Brownwood, Mullin, Zephyr and San Saba. Later that year, in September, they returned from participating in the American Legion Convention parade in Austin and were greeted by ï¿½a small army of automobiles containing local citizens who immediately got into parade form and rode down the city streets headed by the Drum and Bugle Corp.ï¿½ There is also a photo of a Drum and Bugle Corp that existed in San Saba from Troop 55. No date as to when the photo was taken. Band In Brownwood? We think there may have been a Boy Scout band in Brownwood in the spring of 1931.

A brief story in the ï¿½Boy Scout Newsï¿½ section of the May 16, 1931 Brownwood Bulletin stated that ï¿½Merle Baker, Boy Scout Band director, made a report on the progress of the band.ï¿½ However, nothing was ever reported about any activities of the band in the community. Added: June 3, 2011 Western Colorado Council, BSA Council News Den Leader Training, Jan 21 Youth Protection Training and Den Leader Specific Training is being offered for free at the Delta LDS Church, 1679 Pioneer Rd, Delta 81416 from 8am to approx Noon or 1pm. This training is open to all Den Leaders, from Tigers to Webelos; and all Assistant Den Leaders. Snacks will be provided. If you... (Read More) Do you need help w/Internet Recharter? Unit Key 3 have received this year's access code for the 2017 Internet Recharter. If any unit needs help, please set-up an appointment with me and I can help you complete your charter renewal.

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Question: What name is given to a Boy Scout rally
Answer: Jamboree